Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2001 16:52:13 -0800 From: "oldfart@gtonet" <oldfart@gtonet.net> To: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD. ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Sendmail and Identd Message-ID: <BIEHKEFNHFMMJEKCDMLNEELKCEAA.oldfart@gtonet.net> In-Reply-To: <3A901DFB.F7EF77EA@freeloader.freeserve.co.uk>
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> -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of ian j hart > Sent: Sunday, February 18, 2001 11:10 AM > To: Ted Mittelstaedt > Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: Sendmail and Identd > > > Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > > > > What about installing IMP or other webinterface and forcing the > > students that aren't savvy enough to know how to use their > > mail client properly to use that instead? This allows you to > > centralize all administration on the mail clients to in effect > > the central mailserver, and in addition allows the students to > > check mail from any browser. > > > > Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com > > Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide > > Book website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com > > [snip original message] > > Thanks for your reply, but... :) > > I only installed Internet access and mail just before Xmas. We've just > spent a half-term getting (1500) user accounts setup. I would not be a > very popular guy if I changed track at this point. Do you want to be popular or do you want to stop sending mail from the wrong sender due to roaming profiles? Personally, I thought the webmail interface fixed your problem perfectly. The users would send/receive e-mail to/from the proper account, *every* time. You could even set a cron job with a couple of small shell scripts to turn the webmail interface off and on during certain hours (if needed) to make sure students didn't abuse it after-hours, from home. Roaming profiles no longer matter for mail and they all know how to use a browser. Sounds like minimal-pain to me. You may become MORE popular. Patching sendmail to work with broken roaming profiles sounds like much more work. Another possibility, is to change where your "network drive with your profile" is located to ensure they always (not likely) get it. OF > > The problem is not with 'savvy'. It's a _feature_. You log on and send > some mail. If the network drive with your profile is not available you > get the default user settings. (No-one checks account details every time > they mail). The mail goes out with a random users return address. > Sendmail only checks the hostname, which is correct (and masqueraded > anyway). The only clue that this is happening is when you read mail and > the prompted account name is not your own. God bless Bill Gates. > > -- > ian j hart > ICT Technician. > Cardinal Newman School. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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